"That's really enough, Bodyguard Li."
Li Linghai said, "I will send the structural designs of the Godly Might Prison and the locations and activity ranges of all the sentries, surveillance cameras, and mystic rays to your crystal processor immediately. The infiltration battle this time is extremely difficult and demands a hundred percent accuracy. So, I think that you should seize every second and go back for the simulation training right now."
"Understood!"
Li Yao rose up abruptly. "I'll go back for the simulation training right now. However …"
Li Linghai frowned deeply. "What's the problem?"
"I didn't know that the mission would be so arduous. The secret weapon that I've been refining seems to be in need of comprehensive strengthening."
Li Yao said solemnly, "However, the batch of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that were allocated last time has run out. I'm afraid that the secret weapon cannot be refined into the most perfect form."
"Got it."
Li Linghai took a deep breath. "Whatever other materials you need, just get them yourself. As long as you can accomplish the mission of sneaking into the Godly Might Prison and protecting General Lei perfectly, you will get whatever you want!"
"Thank you, Your Grace!"
Li Yao smiled in delight. "I assure you, Your Grace, that the secret weapon will certainly surprise everybody!"
…
Three hours later, inside the No. 1 maintenance workshop of the Deep Sea Palace …
Since a week ago, the maintenance workshop that was the largest in scale and had the most advanced facilities, which was mainly used to maintain and strengthen the Colossi, had entered the highest alert that never had before.
Not only were all the irrelevant personnel not allowed to approach within hundreds of meters, even the refiners who had been working in the workshop had been relocated to other maintenance workshops. Strict orders had also been issued in the Deep Sea Fleet that anyone who dared to approach the maintenance workshop would be killed without mercy!
Everything was because of the Tartarean Skeleton, the Colossus that had been dismantled and modified beyond recognition, which was lying at the center of the maintenance workshop in silence!
The Tartarean Skeleton had shown up in the slaughter streams that affected the entire Imperium. Everybody knew that it was the ultimate weapon of the Cultivators.
If he wanted to let it swagger into the Imperial Capital, he had to "change" it so much that even his parents wouldn't recognize it.
As it happened, Li Yao had received a lot of rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum from Li Linghai. It was not his style to keep them to himself. Naturally, he stuffed them all into the Tartarean Skeleton.
Even if there was no space in the body, he would find a way to use external components to attach them to the armor.
For the sake of confidentiality, Li Yao only used Li Jialing as his assistant in the whole process. The heavy work was assisted by the special spiritual puppets in the form of spiders.
With his Cultivation in the Divinity Transformation Stage, his computational ability was unbelievably high. Together with the assistance of the super crystal processors, it was not a big problem for him to manipulate a hundred spiritual puppets in the form of spiders to perform the most delicate work on the Colossus at the same time.
Other than that, he also took out the structural design of the power system of the Tartarean Skeleton and discussed with Master Jin Tianzong, trying to apply the "hybrid" model of energy transmission and power injection to the Colossus.
Master Jin Tianzong was one of the best specialists of power units in the Imperium of True Human Beings in the first place. Nobody was better than him in the field of theories. He had only been in dire straits because of his accident and the loss of his hands.
Right now, Li Yao had helped him treat his hands with secret techniques and given him a formula of liquid metal that could be condensed into strengthened gloves. It was more than just saving his career; it was more like saving his life.
Naturally, Master Jin Tianzong was fully motivated too. He came up with a lot of whimsical ideas for the comprehensive upgrade of the power units for Li Yao.
The two masters of refining in the Divinity Transformation Stage built the brand-new Tartarean Skeleton together.
It was a …
Colossus that could not have been more fancy and looked more like a nouveau riche.
The black and red colors that had been full of mystery and toughness had been changed by Li Yao into a dazzling gold paint. Such a paint originated from a material named "Star Sand" in the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor, which boasted a very high anti-interference performance. Also, the full-mirror effect was very good at reflecting all kinds of radiation and mystic rays. It was safe to say that 80% of the attacks of mystic rays could be reflected without the spiritual shield.
The only problem was that it looked too extravagant, too high-profile, and too ostentatious.
As it happened, Li Yao had also produced a lot of protruding, unbelievable strengthening components, which were all over the plate armor of the Tartarean Skeleton. There was even a high rising cockscomb on the head of the Tartarean Skeleton. There was no telling whether or not it was a fin, but it was also dazzling gold, as if it was afraid that other people would not notice it from dozens of kilometers away.
It couldn't be helped. The style of the Tartarean Skeleton in the past was too distinctive. If it was not modified to be more distinctive and unforgettable, the marks of the past could not be erased.
"It's a brand new look … but it's still passable."
On the control panel, Li Yao controlled a hundred spider puppets to perform the final polishing and painting while he pondered for a moment. "This should be the 'Tartarean Skeleton'? It should be the 'Gold Special Edition', right? "
Li Jialing, the young man who looked like a "golden lion", was next to him. While helping him, he looked at him and hesitated.
"What are you trying to say?"
Li Yao stuck his head into the control menu. While fine-tuning the connections among the units, he asked, "You've been hesitating ever since I returned here?"
"Brother Yao —"
Li Jialing couldn't help but say, "Are you really going to sneak into the Godly Might Prison to rescue General Lei Chenghu? It's too dangerous."
"Of course it's very dangerous. That's why you need a super expert like me, who has experienced hundreds of battles, who is both intelligent and brave, who is extraordinarily agile and invincible!"
Li Yao said casually, "Also, I trust your mother. Although your mother is an insane gambler, she will certainly not take part in the gamble that she is bound to lose. Now that she is confident that she can rescue General Lei, she will certainly give me the greatest support!"
"Don't call that woman 'my mother'."
Li Jialing mumbled in a low voice, "You trust her?"
"Why not?"
Li Yao said matter-of-factly, "If the battle to conquer the Godly Might Prison fails, it will be your mother who suffers the greatest losses, not me. Is there any reason why she should not try her best?"
After a long daze, Li Jialing said, "It does make sense. You do have reasons to trust her, but I just don't understand why she trusts you and asks you to carry out such a critical mission. Isn't Yue Wushuang, leader of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, more suitable than you? "
"That's where you are wrong. In fact, leaving my abilities aside, I am actually the person that your mother, Queen Li Linghai, trusts the most."
Li Yao smiled and said, "Yue Wushuang, Jin Yuyan, and Dongfang Sheng are more like Li Linghai's political allies than her subordinates. They have come together for the common interests and established the side of 'reformists'.
"But interests can change at any time. They may be allies one second and enemies the next. If the four Kurfürst families can offer more interests than Li Linghai, anybody can betray them at any moment.
"After all, what your mother can offer right now is mostly empty promises. However great the promised positions and benefits are, they may not be as good as the real money of the four Kurfürst families.
"But I'm different. Leaving our personal relationship with Li Linghai aside, I am a Cultivator who values my beliefs! As long as your mother keeps her promise and treats the ordinary people in the entire Imperium more kindly than the four Kurfürst families, I will certainly support her all the time! "
"Right. Speaking of which, there's something else that I want to ask."
Li Jialing was greatly confused. "General Lei Chenghu is an Immortal Cultivator among Immortal Cultivators. I've heard a lot of legends about him even from Li Lingfeng. He is a cold, heartless man who will do anything to achieve his purpose. Are you really going to save him?"
"About that …"
Li Yao blinked and said, "That's right. From the perspective of a Cultivator, Lei Chenghu is indeed an unpardonable Immortal Cultivator and an out-and-out villain.
"However, from the perspective of a Cultivator, your mother, Li Linghai, is also an ambitious villain who is full of schemes and schemes.
"Do you think it's better for me to face one villain or two villains at the same time?"
Li Jialing thought hard for a long time and was greatly enlightened. "Brother Yao, are you suggesting that General Lei Chenghu and the queen may not be on the same side?"
"Exactly. Even if they are on the same side, their interests may not be the same. I've collected tremendous files about General Lei over the past few days. He is definitely not a man that can be manipulated easily. Even if the four Kurfürst families cannot manipulate him, your mother may not be able to control him completely, either."
Li Yao said with a smile, "Look, your mother has the Deep Sea Fleet, the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, and such an enormous Deep Sea Palace, but we have nothing. How can we compete with her? At such a moment, if I rescue General Lei in person and reach out to him, we may be able to establish a new balance. "
Staring at Li Yao for a long time, Li Jialing said, "So, you still don't trust the queen 100%."
"Come on. I'm not a heartless man. I want to completely trust the woman that my foster father loves too."
Li Yao sighed and said, "However, you've seen your mother's hairstyle that makes her look like a white-haired witch. Is it easy to be completely trusted?
"Besides, don't you feel that everything that happened recently is too coincidental?
"As it happened, your mother ran out to hunt her brother, and the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance broke out.
"As it happened, the reformists infiltrated the Godly Might Prison, and General Lei Chenghu was secretly locked in the Godly Might Prison?"
Li Jialing's eyes gradually froze. He asked, "What are you trying to say, Brother Yao?"
"Nothing. It's just a random thought."
Li Yao smiled and looked at the glittering, dazzling Colossus again. He said, "However, leaving everything else aside, the 'secret treasures of the Supreme Emperor' that I got from your mother are already a great profit from the adventure!"
"Right, Brother Yao has been building something with the rare materials that you got from the queen. You even said that it was a 'secret weapon'."
Li Jialing was a young man after all. His attention was also distracted by Li Yao. He asked curiously, "What is it exactly?"
"Let me put it this way. You should know that there is a special piece of magical equipment named 'Ares Extension', which is specially added to the Crystal Suit to significantly increase the combat ability of the Crystal Suit."
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